Definition of "automaker"
automaker
noun
plural automakers
One who manufactures automobiles; typically used to refer to a large corporation such as General Motors.
Quotations
With such competition looming, one might suppose that U.S. automakers would embrace tighter domestic efficiency requirements to help them gird for the challenge.
2004, Amory B. Lovins, E. Kyle Datta, Odd-Even Bustnes, Jonathan G. Koomey, Nathan J. Glasgow, Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security, page 136
Becoming president of the UAW when he did, Bieber inherited the task of organizing the plants that Japanese automakers and suppliers had begun building in America in the early 1980s to circumvent the “voluntary quotas” the Japanese government had placed on exports to the United States.
2008, Joseph J. Fucini, Working for the Japanese, page 14